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› THE ‚HONGKONG - THLEGRAPH: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1917.

The War Tax.

DAY BY DAY.

TIENTSIN TRADE,

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Our attention has been directed tɔ the hardship which the new seven per cent, war tax imposes on Chinsse of the clerk clase who i have to maintain a family in

tolerably decent surroundings. For this type of resideatre ex-preventing a very necessary class

fine series of Lavender Toilet Articles is a powder of

ceptional merit.

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TO TOO MUCH EFFORT CREASE OUR HAPPINESS TRANS- FORMS IT INTO MISERY.-Ronsea.

To-morrow's Anniversary,

To-morrow is the soniversary of the opening of the Ecosomic Conference of the Allies at Paris.

The Dollar.

there are two alternatives: sither the renting of ■ Ast în a The opening rate of the dollar

demand respectable neighbourhood and ou

to-day

was the wab letting of part 2 5.9/181.

A It has real antiseptic prop-tberrof or residence

low-class locality, among coolies Shanghai Rubber Dividend. erties and is wonderfully and the like. The man who has Mesars. Benjamin sad Potts any self-respect usually chooses advise us that the Padang Rabber soothing to the Skin. the former course, and it is he Co, Ld., bea declared a final who is most hardly hit by the dividend of Tla 1,50., making new import. A case has been. Tis. 2.30 for the year 1916. brought to our notice in which such Chinese rented a four- Toomed fat, the rental of which is $28 per month. He has &

1 lb. Size for $1.00.

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The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1917.

THE IRISH QUESTION.

Sanitary Board Meetings.

At the meeting of the Sanitary wife, a mother, three children and Board yeaterday, Mr. Alabaster

sa smeh to provide for, and, as of the Board be held at 4.16 p.m. bis salary is only $90 a month, he This was a conded by Mr. Bowley finds it necessary to sub-let two and carried. of the room to other families.

Granted a Commission.

Wharf Accident.

A Heavy Fine.

A Bad Character.

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Report by the Commissioner of Willing to Pay by Instalments.

Customs.

to sea.

when the value of

an-

An Irish correspondent to the Father and son, joint owners Manchester Guardian mys:➡ån Mr. F. W. Kiss, the Com- of a beefstall in Yaumati Marks!, auction in Dublin for the benefit misioner of Chinese Maritime were the defendents in a cof the dependents of the prisoners Castor, in the course of his bear! at the Summary Court this and dead of the Sinn Fein timing report on the trade of Tientsin morning." before Mr. Justice he realised 41,600. The pro- Gompers, the claim against moters of the event had been st for 1916 save:-

Local-The winter of 1915-16 them being for 827, dne on work for the past six months was remarkable because, for the promissory note...

Mr. E. J. Grias appeared for collecting gifte, and very striking was the generosity with which first time in the history of the port, the river Haiho was kept defendants, and conrented to their requests wars met in open to navigation by means of judgment, and the plantiff was

quartere quite unconnected with Mr. O. B. Sinn Feiniem or even with the ice-breakers throughout the whole represented by

Johnson.

Nationalist movement; "Thus sessan, and ocean steamers were

Mr. Griat said that be had to able to reach the Band without

canvases (which is "not quite the interruption. The winter was consent to judgment because his among those who presented blank. milder than usual, and while clients were quite unable to meet same thing se blank cheque) were there were few of the north- the claim at the moment, and bey ench London artists es William easterly gales, which cause the asked to be allowed to repay the Orpes, Augustas John, John ics to accumulata is the river and smount at the rate of $10 a month Lavery, and Gerald Festus Kelly. on the Taku Bar by destroying the between them. They carried on a The English writers who gave ebb current, there were plenty beef stall business at the Yaumati books included, Belloc, G. K. of north-west winds, which are Market, and some time ago their Chesterton, and C. K. Shorter. most favourable to ice-bresking accountant absconded with a cor- Nevertheless, the act Shots because they accelerate the tides siderable sum of money. leaving more or less boycotted by the which carry the broken ice out the two partnera high sad dry fashionable Unionist section in Daring the winter. They reckoned they could make Dablin, sad prices hardly came continual service of steamers was between $20 and $30 a month.

up to expectations. On the same Mr. Johnson said that the mea day the figures for the general As the principal tenant, he has Mr. W. Bowen Howlande, maintained by the shipping.com- been called upon to pay the extra formerly Secretary of the Sanitary panies with five abipe trading bad been paying over $50 a collection in money for the and much month for rent quite regularly. Volunteers dependente were seven per cent. ca the rent, but, Board, has

beefficially with, the South, on intimating to bis sab tenants grzstted 2nd Lieutenant to the business was done daring the The $10 they were prepared to announced a total of £107,000. that they must bear their part of 28th Batt. London Regiment Reson when the port of Tientsin pay a month would only cover the third of this had been found in Ireland itself. From the United the new barder, the latter have (Artiets Ree).

was always formerly considered interest on the note.

Elie Lordship, giving judgment States came over $30,000, and declared that they will vacate the

to be closed, except for the re duced smount of trade which was for plaintiff, said that it would be Australia, too, had been a gene which promises if they have to pay any

A cargo coolie, aged 43, em-carried by rail via Chiawangtao. preferable if the defendants sub-

rous donor. with more rent. Thus there is a pros.

for pect of the principal tenant hav. ployed on boat No. 339, has been Statistics for the year show that mitted their books to the other

ing the whole at thrown on his sent to the Government Civil trade was well maintained in epite side.

A caricas effect of the rebellion hande, with the fall ordinary rent, through a sling of rice falling on which merchants bas to contend. accountant took the books also.

Hospital, suffering from injurier of the many difficulties with Mr. Grist: The abac ading was a greatly increased sale of Irish booke-particularly of sach plus the new tax, to pay. This, him whilst be wag at work on The net value of the trade of the The question of the amount of as collectors associated with the we are assured, is a typical

steamer at Kowloon wharf. case, and it certainly appears to

port was 133 million teels, an instalments to be paid was left Irish Revival," and while the be one that shows the new tax to

iacrease of 8 million taele over over for the present.

National Aid auction produced in beat hardly on this class of people."

A Chinese was focad yesterday that for 1915 and falling off of

certain respects disappointing re- The particular individual con- on board the .. Kwaogai, and only slightly under half a mil

salt, the prices of the literary items went very high. An edition carned bas given us detaile of his when searched by one of the lion tsels from the figures forbich were not found a success monthly expenditure, including Malay guarde was found to have 1913, certain outgoings necessitated 40 taels of prepared opiam tied the trade of the port reached in the campaign of last winter. of Mr. Yenta's poems published in

The difficulty in finding cargo of the Lar," an almost

1895 sold for £10; "The Tables The adveree Through his being a Police Re round bis waist. Before Mr. J.its bighest point.

sffecting import space in steamers to Europe still

known work by the Pame servist, and these show that he is R. Wood, at the Police Court this conditions

continued, botfortunately toonage left, after meeting these, with a morning, he was fined $3,000 or trade, which have been prevalent mere seven or eight dollars in nine months' hard labour."

ever since the great war began in was plentiful on the Pacific writer, for £8. Other first editions Jail. band: bezce the hardship. The

Volley Ball League.

Europe, showed no sigas of im. During the last two months of the included the playe of Synge. At a meeting held at the

year the great scarcity of ever John Mitchel's historic provement. Although the average problem created ia noi, easy of

Journal," Thomas MacDonagh's and consequent tightness of money solution, but the matter merits. MC.A. last night it was decided sterling exchange of eilver for the

in the market handicaprei, trade" Through the Ivory Gate," and the consideration of the authorit- to resume the Volley Ball Open whole year was about 20 per cent. ries.

League on the 19th iret. Schools better than in 1915, this advantage foreign banke placed difäcaltics phlets. The lettera of bistorical a great deal, 88 in some cases several of "e" esrifer pam or other institutions wishing to was more thanffset by the greatly join are requested to send in their increased prices of all manufact- in the way of making advances for sad literary interest sold came The Italian-Austrian Front.

entries, together with the sum of red articles, due to the high stocks held for shipment. There from varied sources; the Arch of bishop of Canterbury, Cardins! five dollara entraroe fee, to the cost of production abread and had been heavy exports After the splendid advance It is very proballe that the Imperial Gatesment bas good made by the Italian troops re- Secretary of the League on or be to the high freight rates which silver daring the summer, and Newman, and Bodin were repre-

fore Saturday, the 16th.

had to be paid in order to bring ingoficient to relieve the situa- Parnell, Michael Davitt, and Joha since the arrivals of eyces were sented eide by side with Synge, ressons for occupying its own time, the time of the Boare f Cem-cently, it came somewhat in the

them to China. In sommer mops, the time of the membere of the proposed Convention and of nature of sa appleseant surprias

Although he was banished for the political and financial crises, tion, silver was competed for by O'Leary. Anything in Synge's the nation generally in bringing forward the Irish question, with to read that they bad received a its apparently icsoluble difficulties, ita animosities and its inter-setback. Soch, of course, are of the twenty years in 1913, a Chinese resulting in the proclamation of the foreign banke at figures well bend is very rare, and the letters

was found in Ysamati yesterday the so-called moratorium, affected over quoted market rates, and a minable perplexities, at a time when the wai—and only the war, with fortones of war, which occasion and was charged before Mr. J. B. trade very badly, as the confideroe, great deal of the metal was thus strong and characteristic-indeed, its multifarious duties and difficulties, ehculd have all the attention ally vacillate wonderfally: Thie Wood, at the Police Court this of merchants as much shaken a treated cat of the native banke certain passages in them which and serious thought of those in a position to help towarda bringing setback, however, was all the more

he had no less then seven previous it as soon as possible to a conclusion. Why it should be deemed surprising aa the Italians, with morning, when i: transpired that When the two leading Govern- The abnormal rise in the sterling contaiced too vigorous allusion to ment banka cicaed their doors and exchange of silver also affected persona atill living had been expedient to bring forward to controversial a enbject; a sul ject a persistency and determination convictions, beginning in 1909 met bauke cicant their choneren export trade very seriously, as the deleted by the donor. bristling with incumerable dificulties, tingid with the rancour of that has covered them with glory; and had been banished four

ants, were left with large quanti-tendency among native dealers

The force of Bishop Walldon' generations of those differences that totally dissimilar temperaments had been gallantly forging ahead times. His Worebipremended the ties of Chinese paper money in was to hold their stocks instead

Kinema of the worst! man motil to morrow morning. their hands which could not be of lowering involve must be perplexing in the extreme to the average man. through some

their prices in insistence before the

Commission on the educational Had the war been brought to an end, the recollection of the unimaginable chatacles. It is with a view to committing him to used, so the absorption of cargo was comparison with the rise in ex value of the kinematograph show

however, to note settled condition of affaire in Ireland, especially in Uleter, and of pleasing,

Crimical Sessions.

proportionately reduced. There change. Fortunately, the large the Sion Fein outburst of little more than a year age, might have that the position which the

mind because the achievement of were threats of rioting and looting profits being made a broad enabled will largely be lost on the public is bot!

buyers in most cases to meet jastified immediate consideration of purely Irish affairs. However, Italiana

in the native city, and many brought prominently before the notice of the general public, it is we may depend upon it that if to be boped that the fair promise of a settlement, which the aget - there is a sporting chance" of

into the Foreign Concessions for would not do this in the case of natural science, for example, is bling of the proposed Convention seem to hold out, will mature. regaining the place, it will be

storage, causing a great congest-goods for which they were in-not yet common knowledge. It is ion of cargo, since at the same dependent of the local markets insufficiently known that the The Government, as was announced last "mooth, proposes the regained before long by our

time goods could not be transited for their supplies. The future of primary motive for recording formation of a Convention composed wholly of the Lith themselves gallant Allies, who all slong have

to and from the interior, owing the Tientsin export trade seems to movement was she investigation and representing as ompletely as possible Irish interests. As been fighting with a soientific'

It was that to the apprecedented financial be assured, as the world's supply of scientific problems and not of raw materials for making motive which, fifty years ago, led

pictorial display. we stated at the time, anch a Convention seems to for the most precision and determination fre

mesaure having upset the arrange likely solution of the Irish problem, with its eternal equabbling, quently in the face of appalling

A calculating machine which ments of the native banks for clothing and footwear is apparent and, as such, despite its inopportune advent, it has received a kind- obalacles, in a manner at least ly reception by the public. The Prime Minister, in bis speech in equal to that witnessed on any of reduces stefa by 50 per cent, remilling money to and from ly insuficient, and it is therefore the great French biologist Marey the House of Commons, the first part of which appeared in rester- the other Fronts. It would spenggents economies in Govern inland places. With the gradual reasonable to anticipate that the to conduct, with apparatas of his Convention, from which it will be noted that if the Guvern of the Austrians is due to their future. Such a machine, installed two principal native banks in the find a ready market for many functions of life," and his ex- day's Telegraph, gives a further particulars regarding the pear that this temporary success ment and other offices in the redemption of their notes by the production of North Chins will own contriving, his exhaustive

the rapid consumption ment's enggestions are agreed to by those chit fly interested and put having been able to bring up at a lost of about £200, and re-autumn confidence hortly return years to come. At present, owing traordinary success in registering into effect, there should be no reason why the Convention ebculd reinforcemente in timely manner. placing a clerical staff of 17, waeed, and the increasing stability of to

rioneer in kinematography. Now not meet at an early date. "The composition of the Convention-a The alarm that the enemy has one of the eccnomies in organies the Central Government and it caused by the wear and tear movements made him the true. matter no doubt that caused the Goverment mary, anxious hours been experiencing since the tion shown recently at a new proved political aspect enabled of war,

seems to be an eminently sane way of realising a truly representa Italiana advanced is clearly shown department of the Ministry of trade conditions to return to the ceptionally great, and high the machinery has been brought tive Irish assembly. Mr. Lloyd George poin e out that the Govern- by the desperate forts which Labour, established in a derelict normal to a great extent. Export prices are being a-ked and obtain much nserer perfection and with. trade gare good results throughout ed. Even when normal conditions in the people's reach. It can ment had sought to secure representatives of the everyday life of Ire he bas since made and made orchard at Kew,

The new Olaims and. Record the year, which more than made up return the markets of the world show the evolution of a dragon- f, the growth of a grain of land and that they had therefore invited County Councils and Borough succesefolly only at one point-

generally Office, dealing with Unemploy- for imports being so unprofitable, will need restocking, especially barley, the opening of a gladioli Cousoils to send their Chairmer, while the Urban and District for we learn that " Councils would be invited to send two representatives, the Churches speaking though the Italians have ment insurance, replaces eight The quirements of the war in those of Austria and Germany and the birth of a sparrow-hawk, would be represented by four Catholic Bishops, the Archbishop of lost ground at one point where branches in various parts of the Europe, necessitating the clothing and it is unlikely the exports the rise of a mushroom w Dublin and Dr. John Irwin, the Moderator of the Presbyterian As the Austrian counter-stroke took couetry The estimated eaving and equipping of millions of from here will satisfy even pari the feeding of toivomad Revenue. The total collect plants. But when, in conjunction sembly. In addition to these there would also be invitations sent to them at a disadvantage, their net is $25,000 yearly, sad the new newly raised troope, caused a of the demand.

room continual demand for colton,

year-H Tis. with the modern microscope, it Chairmen of the Chambers of Commerce of Dublin, Belfset and Cork; gein remains most importsot," building,, containing one while five representativen would represent Irish Isbour. From the The most recent fighting appeare 300 feet by 100 for the storing of wool, and hider, used for olothing ion for the

the vast recorde, will pay for and footwear; and the trade 4.421,855-was the second best registere the movements of the political stena, Mr. Redmond and Sir John Lonsdale would each be so have been terrife, the enemy the in three years.

in these commodities was well on record, showing an incresseminateet organisme, sad, in con- invited to select five representatives from their respective parties, apparently having been encourag-

Six hundred and seventy-five enetained, although the actual of Hk. Tie. 24,47% over the janotion with the X-rago, takon the whole machinery of animal Mr. Wm. O'Brien two of his followers; the Irish Peers two fromed by the reinforcemente at his their august body; the Unionists of South Ireland five, while five disposal. As illustrating the in- women employees are largely quantities shipped did not exceed figures for 1915 but a decrease places would be reserved for the Sinn Feiners. The Government tocaity of the fighting, it is responsible for the work of those of 1915, when the demand of Hk. Tis, 184,000 from the 1914 life in motion, showing the move- themselves nominate from among leading Irishmen of all sections pointed out that no fewer than the department. Almost twelve was even greater. The phen- collection, which was the largest mente of the muscles, the sction of the digestive organa, then its fifteen members of the Convention, thus bringing the total number "twenty vain attempts to recover million documents are already omensl prosperity in America led yet made. The position which of the heart and lange, the oironla-. to the respectable figure of 101, which, if a spirit of kindly co- the ground in the Vodice actor eloted at Kew, and the records, to an encrmous increase in the Tientsin acquired in 1910 ation of the blood and the operation operation and harmony prevails, should prove a services ble body were made by the enemy, who lost concerning 1,500,000 men and fancy leather goods trade, so second port in Chius for revenue value as an educational agent it,

very heavily. The Italians indeed women workers, are prepared in there was a constant inquiry for is reasserted every year. Lowreases

beyond challenge. The only, even in the mighty task that confronts it,

If the proposed Convention agrees to consider the interests of Ire- have fought splendidly, and that duplicate, one set being kept all kinds of skine, which, went were noticeable in export duty in the realm of scienos at any rate, ́land as a whole; Ireland's welfare-north, south, east and west they may be thoroughly relied behind fire proof doors. It is abroad in large quantities. The and outward transit dues. These doubtful question is how to lo

ance its fall educational use, per.cent, agrees also to let bygones be bygones, and all the raneone and upon to give of their best, even in estimated that, including "float increased use of leather reticules figures of revenue odlicoted, veration of the past to be sunk into the limbo of the past, then there the face of the many difficulties ing" workers, 600,000 workers by ladies also strengthened the though calculated on a 5 will be some likelihood of a happy termination of the Government's that still impede them, is evident insure every week, sad referring demand for kid and sheep skins, basis, ere no indication sa to the well-mesnt effort in thus suggesting that Irishmen should extricate to those who beat know their to the seven-yearly valuation of and these were also wanted far value of the trade of the port, Ireland from the unhappy-etate in which she has long believed her fervour for the cause of Right over the fand, which is also prepared the supply of leather jerkins sinos a large amount of foreign self so be, in being governed from Westminster instead of from Might, which they, in common at Kew, an ofacial yesterday said to the British troops, in the goods pay duty at Shanghai and Dablin. A long-suffering public will fervently hope that the most with the Allies, are determined to that the fund is alrent and place of the tanned goat-skin arrive here under exemption in his diocess has ofered him gli zeda

likely to continue-2320 maintain, cost what it msy.

posts worn with the hair outside, certificaten. auspicious fortune may attend the meetings of the Convention.

bave lost

from him in this collection were

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as the eutject, despite the war-indeed, becs ase of it-is once more "momentarily" surrendered; and CALCULATING MACHINE.dealers brought all their took the increased prices but the the kinematograph in the field of

Labour Saving Device in New Government Office.

the dewused is ex.

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researches into "movement in the

Patriotic Parsons.

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The Bishop of Southwolisze announces that every alergare Bejenis

for National Servicë.